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How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
Kurzgesagt argues that Facebook's claimed 8 billion daily video views are inflated by freebooting, meaning re-uploads of creators' videos. It describes how this harms independent creators.
HN cites it to explain freebooting, Facebook's inflated view metrics and why Content ID matters for small creators.
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